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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
What a terrible day to know how to read.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I knew the bees had to be secreting wax somehow. But I always imagined it to be some kind of secondary oral process. Instead they really use… specialized pores under the segments in their thorax?

Now I don’t know which version grosses me out more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.
When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.

Basically, it’s a flex. In order to have a perfect looking grass yard, you either need to kill all your free time to maintain it, or pay people a lot of cash to keep it tip-top. And the free time thing also requires money since you probably don’t have your life set up like that unless you’re paying for it somewhere else. Any other approach will yield mediocre results which will immediately mark you as unable to keep pace with your more monied neighbors.

Assuming you’re playing their game, that is. Which you clearly are not. Good job!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Source: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn

Look, this guy is a phenomenon and worth at least some of your time. Not just for the kill your lawn stuff, but for making botany actually interesting. There’s a whole-ass youtube channel that is sure to entertain if not educate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why they push this bullshit outside of the law anyway. More specifically, this is the act of an executive agency, and even then, a lone individual on a twitter account. There’s enough layers of “oopsie-doodle” and “come sue us,” that they feel pretty safe doing this shit.

Meanwhile, “in god we trust” is still on our currency…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I find this alternate timeline incredibly likely. I had a friend in college who was all about SCO Unix back before they went evil, even when Slackware was the go-to distro. We would have a lot more BSD forks out here now, although NextStep (and maybe even OSX) would probably still emerge as one of the better commercial ones.

As an aside: what I find amusing is that Homebrew is basically BSD Ports, served from a git repo. In 2025, it’s a completely insane way to ship OS software to a single platform, but it does work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No. This is Super Mario only.

However, your Mario could go straight through walls to enter negative worlds…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie,

Featuring the svelte and portable Motorolla cellular model from 1988:

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Which is an improvement from this beast:

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I had a domestic A/C unit fail this way. Zip ties kept the power leads to the compressor taught against the bottom leg of the compressor housing (cast iron or some kind of steel). The edge of the zip tie, combined with vibration and moisture abraded the insulation over the period of about 3 years and grounded out against the housing. This destroyed the compressor motor windings (melted to a dead-short under power), leading to a pricey repair.

Technician knew what to look for since he saw the exact same failure mode on that make of A/C unit in a commercial model on a rooftop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Eh, personally, i’d still find a way to screw that up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno, eyeballs are pretty much unitaskers. Vision gets used to help reinforce balance, reflexes, and proprioception, but that’s all in the brain.

Teeth might be debatable. Arguably they’re only for masticating food. The debate opens up whether other functions are physiological and so compulsory, social constructs, or neurological things we do instinctively.

With everything else, I 100% agree. It’s all an engineering nightmare to service and troubleshoot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.

Exactly. Let’s use a securing mechanism that requires a razor-sharp blade, held perilously close to what you don’t want to cut, in order to undo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable management is an art form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They show up in the worst places. Top offenders are inside A/C units and car engines. Yanno, where there’s lots of vibration to help the little bastards cut through insulation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you use non violent communication at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As it turns out… yes, although I was unaware that there was a codified definition for this. There are parts of this that I’m not doing, so thank you for linking such a useful resource!

IMO, doing this is really non-negotiable. Not behaving in this manner can be counterproductive at best, and land you in hot water with HR at the worst. People are on the lookout, and rightly so, for bias, discrimination, bullying, and malice. So having strong and warm relationships is important to make sure your worst days are not misinterpreted by others. This is even more crucial if you’re in management. Having a solid communication strategy is paramount to enabling the best in all relationships, and having a good experience for yourself at the same tie.

Going by the written-word on Wikipedia… yeah, this is a lot. I honestly think this is the kind of thing that goes better with practice, and maybe having a small note (phone, paper, whatever) with the critical points to hit, would make that easier than recalling two pages of instructions. You can also be up-front with people, explaining “I’m trying something new, please indulge me for a moment”. After all, who doesn’t mind getting extra care and attention?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite kind of restaurant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Besides, everything here is fried in self-heating hydrogenated oil.

But since you’re headed to the fission restaurant, can you pick me up a bottle of heavy water? I’m parched. It’s way too hot in here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I know a padded resume when I see one. Dude is having a hard time getting dates, so he threw a handful of more desirable keywords in there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You need people to move into the countryside, ideally where they aren’t selling land or building houses, and there’s no jobs. Plus it may well be an environment that will gerrymander the hell out of any such transplants if they happen to clump up.

I’m not saying it’s a bad plan, but it’s a hail-mary pass at best, and you need a lot of people to do this. Consider what the Libertarians tried with New Hampshire a while back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dazzling!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a little worse than that. Consider the intimate the contact between fido’s hindquarters and that seat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, now you have charcoal to cook the next batch correctly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not that they don’t understand it. It’s that they literally can’t afford to adopt it.

Corporate ownership, combined with being publicly traded or privately investor funded, means that you have to increase shareholder value. Stock dividends aren’t enough. So, they use the only play that they know: scale the company up.

Problem is: you can scale art, but scaling software is very hard. Book publishers and record labels figured this out ages ago: keep adding more artists and more products. Meanwhile, AAA game studios keep stacking bodies onto existing IPs, making fewer yet bigger software products instead. Meanwhile, they keep getting bodied by small upstarts like Team Cherry, because they’re practically a garage band in comparison. If everyone just ran their game companies like Penguin Random House instead of Microsoft, they’d be in better shape.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. You basically have to keep eating that way and your gut flora adjust to compensate. It’s still a pretty windy diet since you rely on those gut-bugs to break down a lot of the sugars in beans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s a version of this where 3rd person movement controls are logical to the avatar, rather than to the screen. Only in this case, it’s the developers who are wrong. I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 1.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I did most of a Dark Souls playthrough with a PS3 controller that was breaking down. There’s a tiny foam block on the inside that, after some years of abuse, will flatten out and trigger spurious inputs if some controls are pressed too hard. This caused an interesting challenge, since after panic-rolling, I would usually stand back up disarmed (d-pad alt right/left swaps that hand out for an alt item which was empty). It seemed kinda/sorta natural that way, and didn’t know that wasn’t a game mechanic (in this already ludicrously hard game) until I talked to some friends about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where did we go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Huh. So, on another timeline, without WWII getting in the way, society just goes straight to Burning Man. I like it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Tires are the enemy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps all the fking time. The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital censor, so I can’t say stuff like St ck py or fkin-dkballs. That’s like half my vocabulary, it’s goddamn bulls*t!!